About 93.1 million workers were covered under workers' compensation laws in 1988--an increase of 11 percent from the 1984 total. Benefit amounts totaled $30.7 billion--an increase of about 56 percent since 1984. Of the total payments made under the workers' compensation program, $17.6 billion went to disabled workers, $1.6 billion to their survivors, and $11.5 billion for medical care. The Soci...

BACKGROUND Mammography use is increasing in the United States, but most women older than 50 years still are not being screened regularly. A multicomponent program, with components for women and physicians, was conducted to increase screening among women aged 50 to 74 years in an independent practice association (IPA)-model health maintenance organization (HMO). METHODS The participating women...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine use of weight control strategies in Canadian adults and the role of income as a barrier to using these strategies. METHODS Data from the Canadian Community Health Survey cycle 4.1 on health behaviour change was used for this study. Analysis was restricted to adults (18+ years) residing in the 10 provinces of Canada. Respondents were categorized ...

The purpose of this paper is to challenge the validity and policy relevance of the two major types of poverty theories: the cultural theory and the ~tructural theory. The two types of theories are defined and the evidence for them is assessed. As the theories are almost entirely based upon case studies, the assessment utilizes methodologically more rigorous research as well as an internal analy...

On behalf of my coauthors and myself, I would like to thank Dr Bolin for initiating a discussion of dental sealants (1) and encouraging us to expand our comments beyond those conveyed in our abstract (2). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promotes school-based and other publicly provided sealant campaigns, because it is recognized that children from lower-income families often lack...

Launched in January 2001 by the Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative (CHI), the Healthy Kids program provides health insurance coverage to over 13,000 children in the county with household incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level ($62,000 for a family of four) who are ineligible for the two major state insurance programs in California, Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. The...

This paper reviews changes in the federal government's approach to antipoverty policy, analyzes the trend in child poverty and the antipoverty impacts of current income maintenance programs, and proposes some additional antipoverty policies. No single program or policy can meet the needs of the diverse poverty population. There is now greater variation in economic status among children and amon...